Any technological process (in t. Ch. And a peg of firewood), performed manually - quite time consuming and difficult, time consuming. This is how our ancestors harvested firewood for heating the house and bath, but now, with the advent of modern technology, harvesting firewood has become much easier and faster. So, to replace the obsolete ax, came a more advanced device - a woodcutter.
Classification of wood splitters
Machines for chopping firewood are divided into:
- Professional loggers. These are multifunctional mechanisms, able to perform operations not only on the splitting of firewood, but also from the supply of logs, their butting along the required length and removal of ready-made logs.
- Home loggers. The only function of such a machine is to split firewood. This option is cheaper than the professional and has a small size and low power.
By engine type:
- Lumberjacks also work on the electric motor. The engine power cannot be less 3 kw. Of all the existing modifications - this is the simplest and easiest to operate lumberjack, who use a hydraulic pump in their work. This machine does not require prior preparation for work and does not require special maintenance. Their only drawback is the connection to the power supply, that is, to the grid. Such mechanisms are used mainly for household needs.
- Lumberjacks and equipped with an engine, running on diesel or gasoline. They differ from electric models in greater power. Used mainly for logging on an industrial scale, but often in the household.
- Mechanisms, working on tractor traction. These are very strong loggers, which are used in enterprises, farms, forestry.
- Devices, equipped with a combined engine. Such units combine different types of drives. These can be such combinations: tractor traction and electric motor; engine, running on diesel or gasoline and tractor traction.
By degree of mobility:
- Mobile wood splitters. Thanks to that, that such devices are equipped with special wheels, they are easy to move from place to place.
- Industrial loggers. These are very heavy and massive mechanisms, which are installed in a certain place and do not move anywhere else.
According to the principle of work:
- Conical electric wood splitter. Instead of a knife, the mechanism has a cone with a thread, which splits logs, screwing into it. This model of wood splitter is best suited for self-manufacturing.
- Hydraulic wood splitter. Than, by means of the hydraulic pump, with great force pressed into the log and it splits.
How to make a wood splitter yourself?
Not every owner of their own yard or just a summer resident will be able to afford to buy a ready-made wood splitter in the store. But you can try to make a budget version of the woodcutter yourself. As mentioned earlier, the easiest to manufacture is a conical wood splitter.
Types of homemade wood splitters
Household wood splitter can be stationary or mobile (equipped with wheels). Each modification of the private yard is determined by each owner of the private yard. Household appliances for chopping firewood can be equipped with a gasoline engine or electric motor. The electric chopper is usually powered by a single-phase network.
If the possibility of using electricity is not available, it is possible to equip a design with the petrol engine, whose power must be at least 5 kw. The working element in most homemade designs is a cone with a screw thread. Reliable work of such mechanism is provided by persistent carving: it is better in wood and less prone to abrasion.
We make a screw wood splitter with our own hands
Such a device consists of the following elements:
- bed - metal frame;
- electric motor with belt or chain transmission;
- screw cone with thread;
- drive shaft unit.
The most difficult in the manufacture of the structure is the cone, which is screwed into the log, splits it. The part can be sharpened on a lathe or ordered by specialists. If you do not have the opportunity to order the manufacture of parts and you do not have a lathe, you can use the Bulgarian. To do this, the Bulgarian metal must be mounted on the motor mount and after that, as it begins to rotate freely, just remove the metal evenly from all sides.
Ready to put the cone on the shaft, equipped with bearings of the required size. A flange with a sprocket from a motorcycle wheel is pre-mounted on the end of the shaft. The cone is fixed with a bolt or pin. So, in case of jamming, it can be easily removed from the shaft or unscrewed with a gas wrench. If the cone is attached to the motor shaft completely, that is, without the possibility of its dismantling, in case of breakage it is necessary to remove all chain of the drive, since the motor shaft cannot be rotated in the opposite direction.
From two nuts and pipes to construct a strut and to insert it between the engine and a shaft. With this spacer the chain will be stretched.
be careful! Never install the taper attachment on the motor shaft directly, so developing their power reaches 3 thousand. About / min. This is too much for a homemade wood splitter. Its maximum power of all 400 — 600 about / min. To transfer rotation from the motor reducer to the cone, it is necessary to make a chain or belt drive, which should be exposed in a protective cover.
Execution of all works, related to electricity should be entrusted to professionals.
Woodcutter with his own hands. Video
so, the use of modern wood splitters significantly facilitates the process of harvesting firewood as in large logging companies, and in small private farms. The device is easy to use, which allows even women and the elderly to cope with it. Subject to all safety and operating rules, relating to the protection of the mechanism from moisture and humidity, as well as the electrical part, the woodcutter will serve you for many years.